acta

See also: ACTA, actă, and ác tà

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum.

Pronunciation

Noun

acta f (plural actes)

  1. act (of a parliament)

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.ta/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)
  • Homophones: actas, actât

Verb

acta

  1. third-person singular past historic of acter

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From āctus (“made, done, acted”), from the past participle of the verb agō (“make, do”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

    Noun

    ācta n pl (genitive āctōrum); second declension

    1. acts, transactions, or proceedings (e.g., of an organization, in an academic field, of an office holder).
    2. journal; register of public events; newspaper.
      Synonym: ephēmeris
    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

    plural
    nominative ācta
    genitive āctōrum
    dative āctīs
    accusative ācta
    ablative āctīs
    vocative ācta
    Descendants
    • → Catalan: acta
    • → English: act
    • → Galician: acta
    • → German: Akte
    • → Indonesian: akta
    • → Malay: akta
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: akt
    • → Portuguese: ata
    • → Spanish: acta

    Participle

    ācta

    1. inflection of āctus:
      1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
      2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

    Participle

    āctā

    1. ablative feminine singular of āctus

    Etymology 2

      Derived from Ancient Greek ἀκτή (aktḗ).

      Noun

      acta f (genitive actae); first declension

      1. seashore, beach
      2. (figuratively, plural only) holiday
      Declension

      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative acta actae
      genitive actae actārum
      dative actae actīs
      accusative actam actās
      ablative actā actīs
      vocative acta actae

      References

      • “acta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “acta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • "acta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
      • “acta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
        • (ambiguous) I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
        • (ambiguous) to have all one's trouble for nothing: rem actam or simply actum agere (proverb.)
        • (ambiguous) it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
        • (ambiguous) a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
        • (ambiguous) to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)
        • (ambiguous) amnesty (ἀμνηρτία): ante actarum (praeteritarum) rerum oblivio or simply oblivio
      • “acta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • “acta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

      Portuguese

      Noun

      acta f (plural actas)

      1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of ata; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

      Further reading

      Romanian

      Etymology

        Unadapted borrowing from Latin acta.

        Noun

        acta n (uncountable)

        1. collection of documents

        Declension

        singular only indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative acta actaul
        genitive-dative acta actaului
        vocative actaule

        Spanish

        Etymology

        Borrowed from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum, from agō. Sense 4 is borrowed from English act.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ˈaɡta/ [ˈaɣ̞.t̪a]
        • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
        • Rhymes: -aɡta
        • Syllabification: ac‧ta

        Noun

        acta f (plural actas)

        1. certificate
        2. minutes, record
        3. election results
        4. (law, US, New York City, Illinois) act (statute)

        Usage notes

        • Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like acta, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el acta. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al acta, del acta.
          This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un acta or una acta. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).
          However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor acta, una buena acta.
        • In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
        • The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el acta única, un(a) acta buena.
        • In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

        Further reading

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